http://www.meetelizabeth.co/home daily 1.0 2022-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1549861841796-DY8POF6XCWCR7POPDF85/Artboard+2%404x.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1549862181367-BUY1HDLXSNS5CJT2HDRT/Artboard+4%404x.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631581960881-CKNB1DIHZ6B6M8PL8TEF/BG.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631574528704-6VV51I6WMPIPA0GW8FGR/Khan-Academy.png Home - Khan Academy 2019 - 2022 I started as a Senior Product Designer and was promoted to a Principal Product Designer in 2022. At Khan, I worked on one of our newest product surface areas — teacher tools. As a part of the Classroom team, I designed the platform that teachers use with their students, including features that supported educators with assignment creation, reporting, and everything in between. ____ Read about my work at Khan Academy ➝ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631574556887-J9VDY1MH9Q7PN12LMB8D/CZI.png Home - CZI & Summit Learning 2018 - 2019 I worked as a Product Designer within the Education Initiative of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. I was a part of a 4-person R&D team to explore how CZI could support early childhood development, and then transitioned onto the core product team working with Summit Learning. ____ ☀️ Read about my work at CZI ➝ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631582128508-PROCCV96EY5HW5E6F4PX/Neighborly.png Home - Neighborly 2015 - 2018 Note: Neighborly closed in late 2019. I was the first full-time Design hire, and Lead Product Designer at Neighborly, where I developed everything from our brand to our product (and several following generations of our product). ____ Learn more ➝ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631574797471-IF7T4PRX7WNFMUTJS3BB/DSI.png Home - The School of Visual Arts (SVA) 2015 (MFA in Design for Social Innovation) For my thesis, I prototyped and piloted scalable programs to help new, K-12 teachers in rural areas combat the aches and pains of their first year of teaching. ____ Learn more ➝ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1629759858711-CF4J6S8PC25T1UT1OLIK/Spot+illo+1.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1629759896520-F75QXNO1526YCGHA90ZX/Spot+illo+2.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1629759920565-UUYOFGYOLUDX4WT978XX/Spot+illo+3.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.meetelizabeth.co/about daily 0.75 2022-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59284562a5790a6b9072d0bc/1509379106620-RVOIZ6E30WRX2AK669NV/color-6.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1549862268948-GNTSR2U3LIDR7AF2LFLU/Artboard+4%404x.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1629917343848-MFUX9W6J4ZPHDRYYQ08A/Liz-Roffey.png About - Hi, I’m Liz. I like to work with people who are passionate about leaving the world a little better than when they started. I think of my Design skills as a way I can contribute to that. I'm currently a Lead Product Designer at Asana (San Francisco, CA), developing ways for large-scale teams to create and run their workflows more efficiently. http://www.meetelizabeth.co/contact daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1549861914016-2HPUV57YT3MGO604PMUR/Artboard+1%404x.png Contact http://www.meetelizabeth.co/khan-academy daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631581960881-CKNB1DIHZ6B6M8PL8TEF/BG.png Khan Academy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631567557479-KBC80CHIM56DF96GM8FN/Khan-Academy_Hero-B.png Khan Academy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631569843971-3ZBLQKCVSSLXF3ZA7S4B/KA-1.png Khan Academy - Student understanding, at-a-glance In early 2020, I shipped a report that allows teachers to visually compare “mastery levels,” or the depth of understanding a single student has demonstrated, across all of the content in a single Khan Academy course, such as High school geometry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631569937433-XVUX6PUZ3XEFTVJR3PCB/KA-2.png Khan Academy - What could teaching with Khan look like 3 years from now? In late 2020 (to early 2021), I co-lead Design on a massive 3-year vision undertaking for the product organization. What started as an exercise in understanding teacher adoption lead to a deep research and visioning exercise that crossed all of our core platform teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631569978900-X3AZ8E6L8293MH6YWOUC/KA-3.png Khan Academy - Assignment management for the weary teacher In 2021, I shipped a series of long-desired improvements to the way teachers can manage assignments that they have created for their class on Khan Academy, including a way to schedule assignments in advance and a method for bulk editing multiple assignments at once. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631798155052-D1KHKA8146F5L7Q320E4/Flourish.png Khan Academy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.meetelizabeth.co/czi daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631581960881-CKNB1DIHZ6B6M8PL8TEF/BG.png Chan Zuckerberg Initiative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631805603984-CXEOLWOKX1K8MOQGQST3/Summit+Learning+-+Hero.png Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631810006109-EQ14ENZFLTPKBONGAR5Y/Flourish-CZI.png Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631806847714-FUHKDMJ0M0SNXDJV9G08/CZI-1.png Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Flexible grade management In 2019, Summit Learning decided it wanted to make its standardized grading policy more flexible - so that schools had more autonomy and control over the way students received grades. That policy change required product changes, as now administrators needed to be able to adjust the weight of elements of a student’s grade on a course-by-course basis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631806541626-O9KXPMVNGH1YHF16ZLBA/CZI-2.png Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - A firm foundation The product team at CZI had never had a Design Systems designer, so a majority of the components that existed in the product came directly from a few designers’ minds as the needs arose. This made it challenging for strategy-heavy/UX-centric designers to participate in the product, since they didn’t feel confident creating new UI elements. On top of the last of standardization, many colors in the product did not meet contrast standards, which came up all the time in research when teachers would try to project the product in their classroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1631806580749-4R3MYJTCON5JMBOXNF7A/CZI-3.png Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Bringing teachers together If a student is working with a Math or Reading specialist at school, they are often living two (or more) completely separate lives throughout the week. Typically, their classroom teachers have no idea what the student is working on in intervention time, and interventionists have to peek at printer stations to see what students are working on in the classroom. What if there was a way for them to communicate about shared needs of a student so that they, as a team, could better support that student? http://www.meetelizabeth.co/neighborly daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519415509637-6L0EQDZEOUXWQB4HMB4H/main-collage.png Neighborly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519422118561-XM6X0OHCXTWI0JK41JUG/vlcsnap-2017-03-13-15h38m13s063.png Neighborly - The original impact investment. Municipal bonds operate like loans for cities when they need to finance large-scale infrastructure works in areas like transportation, public spaces, and energy. Investors loan the city money by purchasing a bond, and the city agrees to pay the investors back at the end of their investment (usually between 2-30 years), gathering interest payments along the way. _____ Photo: Bikeshare posters in Cambridge, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519422213404-7BARK1NHSNH7Z6KJS923/vlcsnap-2017-03-13-15h40m54s554.png Neighborly - Financing the future, together. Neighborly is a double-sided financial marketplace where citizens can invest in public projects through municipal bonds. On one side, we work with cities to help raise on-demand capital for world-positive projects. On the other, Neighborly helps investors earn returns on their investments while simultaneously supporting real, tangible impact. _____ Photo: Pitichoke Chulapamornsri (Neighborly) helps a citizen invest in Cambridge, MA bonds using Neighborly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519423461703-NO1RUKT43NKP4FLWV5GN/focus-1.png Neighborly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519423805846-MO7A30C2WZCXKY6JFYW3/focus-2.png Neighborly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519424119035-KUO2UDAO6QB5966ACGFA/focus-3.png Neighborly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519424616803-3AC97DPYLL61E9Z30A8L/focus-4.png Neighborly http://www.meetelizabeth.co/sva-dsi daily 0.75 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519004506692-RV17UTQ12U4SBA7ZU8X6/MAIN_Teacher-Morale_v4.png SVA DSI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519001160402-89I190KCRB8B8E1NDDS2/Teacher-Problems.png SVA DSI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519482238587-DVQDHZQEHUZZ816U96PC/IMG_0320.JPG SVA DSI - Uber, but for teachers? The first prototype, named SchoolBus, paired two teachers together who knew of each other but had never really met with a parent volunteer who drove them to-and-from work each day for 3 days during the week. The parent volunteers also brought the teachers coffee and breakfast snacks. ____ Photo: Ruth (left) and Rae (right) of North Carolina riding to school together with SchoolBus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519481962661-VS30R8GHJDIOKLFKGOTL/Screenshot+2015-04-16+01.21.12.png SVA DSI - #BeaconCarpool Challenge After discussing the shortcomings of the initial prototype with all of the participants, SchoolBus relaunched as Beacon, an open-source toolkit for teachers to self-organize carpooling groups at their schools. This kicked off with a carpool challenge on social media, where we asked teachers to ride to school together for a week and see what happened. ____ Photo: Teigan (left) and Ann (right) of Georgia grabbing coffee on their way to school together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54715db5e4b0b4e83192d785/1519005357151-Z06LGFODE1ED1Z9ADRI3/Beacon-site.gif SVA DSI - Scale it all up with a toolkit Beacon was piloted in Spring of 2015 in North Carolina and Georgia on a small scale. To make it more accessible and scalable, a website was launched where teachers and administrators could download all of the materials they would need to start programs like Beacon at their own schools. ____ Photo: A screen capture of the Beacon website before it was taken down in late 2016 due to an inability to maintain it by myself. http://www.meetelizabeth.co/all-styles daily 0.75 2026-03-20